Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
Hostages. A middle-aged Farm Security Administrator of Little Rock, Frank Horsfall, was quietly driving home when armed men began to burst from the bushes beside the road. Five climbed into the back seat of the car, and one took the wheel. A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape. He quizzed his captors about prison conditions, learned that they believed they were abused, since they said the trusties used bull whips on them. They admitted that they had killed a guard...
...clock one morning last week a bomb burst over Seattle's water front. By the dawn's early light, rowboats scurried into Elliott Bay. Some anchored. Others rowed around. For four hours, ferryboats plying between Seattle and Bremerton had to detour to avoid the milling fleet. It was the grand finale of the Ben Paris Salmon Derby, oldest and biggest of the Pacific Northwest's latest sport craze...
...night last week, after 76 hours of debate, the Senate passed the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training Bill, 58 to 31. The Senate had approved peacetime conscription, but the bill provided the biggest burst of fireworks in 1940's Presidential campaign. Morning of the final day, Georgia's smooth-faced Senator Russell popped up with an amendment jointly sponsored by Lousiana's Senator Overton, ardent New Dealer and onetime Huey Long ally: ". . . Whenever the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy determines that any existing manufacturing plant or facility is necessary for the national defense...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...